i was never comfortable in my body…i was too skinny…cubby…pear shaped…almost perfect…then mangled (thank you cancer)…now inverted triangle (thank you lifting weights). stress and medications have destroyed my middle, hoping to eat lightly when summer hits. not that any of this matters. xx

Triple jumper and Trampoline girl have a lot of similaritits and it’s what we look for in our long and triple jumpers. My daughter and I are just like them because we have very developed quads, hamsteings, calves, and glutes, which are necessary for explosive jumping. However, they just don’t make jeans for those legs so even a pair that fits pretty good still needs to go to the tailor.

Jeans are a tough item of clothing. Remember when they didn’t have stretch and the Levi’s were only boy cut….couldn’t get my quads in those legs for the waist size. Whew! BTW — buying bra for those tits can be tricky, too. (Uhhh- Run DMC/Beastie Boys “It’s tricky” is now stuck in my head…)

It’s a relentless discussion, isn’t it? I wish we had more figures in the media who represented variety of bodies. Dove campaigns and others are find, a good start, but they don’t influence society as much as we would like unfortunately. We’re celebrity obsessed so that’s where I’d love to see alternative beauty celebrated. Even the fact that I use the word “alternative” here says a lot…

I think people have started to learn to see in color (not worrying about black, white, purple , red skin that you are in…) But seeing in body shapes is going to take awhile. I fall into that “alternative” catagory. 🙂